Infrastructure Project Manager

The Judge Group; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

The Judge Group is seeking a seasoned Project Manager to lead infrastructure technology initiatives in a hybrid role based in downtown Chicago. This 12+ month contract involves governance, schedule, budget, risk management, and cross-functional leadership to achieve project objectives.

You will drive multiple concurrent projects, ensure IT controls compliance, and report status to stakeholders in a regulated environment.

Qualifications

• Experience leading infrastructure technology projects with significant scope and risk.
• PMI standards-based project management, IT controls, and regulatory requirements.
• Ability to lead multiple concurrent projects in a matrixed organization.
• Adept at influencing across all levels of the organization.
• Familiarity with servers/storage/network/database/middleware infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Lead project team to deliver objectives and manage scope, schedule, resources, and cost.
• Establish governance, define roles, phases, and milestones for projects.
• Develop project plans, provide execution leadership, and track progress.
• Identify risks and dependencies; develop contingency and restoration plans.
• Ensure compliance with project standards, IT controls, risk and regulatory requirements.
• Communicate project status and health, including risks, impacts, and milestones.

Skills

PMP/ACP certification

Infrastructure project leadership

Waterfall/Hybrid/Agile

PMO standards & IT controls

Multi-project leadership

Matrixed org navigation

Infrastructure tech familiarity

PPM tools familiarity

MS Office suite proficiency

Financial services/regulatory exposure

Tools

Clarity PPM

ServiceNow

Jira

Azure DevOps

MS Project

SharePoint

Teams

Job description

This role is 12+ month contract and hybrid to downtown Chicago.

Responsibilities

• Lead project team to successfully deliver project objective and benefits providing required oversight to ensure control of scope, schedule, resources and cost.
• Provide structured project management leadership by establishing governance, ensuring clear roles and responsibilities for all project team members, defining phases, and identifying deliverables/milestones.
• Develop project plans, provide executional leadership, and track progress on project goals.
• Identify and manage areas of risk and dependencies including contingency planning and developing project health restoration plans.
• Ensure adherence to project standards, IT controls, risk and regulatory requirements.
• Provide timely communications on project status and health including scope, schedule, resource, and/or budget as well as articulate key risks/issues and associated impacts.

Qualifications

• Experience leading infrastructure technology projects and leading teams to execute highly complex initiatives of significant scope, scale and risk to successfully deliver project objectives and benefits.
• Program/project management expertise including working knowledge and application of Waterfall, Hybrid and/or Agile methodologies.
• Skillful in adopting corporate project management standards (which incorporate PMI standards), IT controls, risk and regulatory requirements.
• Demonstrated ability leading multiple concurrent projects.
• Adept at navigating a matrixed environment, influence, inform, and collaborate with all levels of the organization.
• General familiarity with infrastructure technology (Servers / Storage / Network / Database / Middleware).
• Familiarity working with PPM Tools such as Clarity and other tools including Service Now, Jira, Azure DevOps, etc.
• Solid working knowledge of MS Office Suite including MS Project, SharePoint, and Teams, etc.
• PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) or Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP) certification
• Experience in a large financial services firm or highly regulated industry a plus